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Post Election-Day blues?
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
I’d voted, talked up the candidate for senator to my friends, cheered him on as the race came down to the wire—and then felt totally crushed when he wasn’t elected. I scoffed at the “alleged” abilities of his opponent, who seemed wimpy and inarticulate by comparison with the experience and conviction of “my” candidate.
After I’d spent enough time feeling miserable, I really wanted to shake the feeling that my state faced six years of hopelessness, but I’d gotten myself so “down” that I couldn’t seem to get “up” again. At that point, I knew it was time for prayer, and the answer I got with my prayers was direct and simple.
It’s the last line of the Lord’s Prayer: “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.” The word thine seemed to have special emphasis, as I realized that each of us really does live in God’s kingdom and is under His care—no matter who happens to be in the Senate or any other political office.
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